7 Won’t God provide justice to his chosen people who cry out to him day and night? Will he be slow to help them?
8 I tell you, he will give them justice quickly. But when the Human One comes, will he find faithfulness on earth?"
9 Jesus told this parable to certain people who had convinced themselves that they were righteous and who looked on everyone else with disgust:
10 "Two people went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
11 The Pharisee stood and prayed about himself with these words, ‘God, I thank you that I’m not like everyone else—crooks, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.
12 I fast twice a week. I give a tenth of everything I receive.’
13 But the tax collector stood at a distance. He wouldn’t even lift his eyes to look toward heaven. Rather, he struck his chest and said, ‘God, show mercy to me, a sinner.’